A new academic study shows that graduated response policies against file-sharers fail to boost box office revenues. The empirical research, which looked at the effects in various countries including the United States, suggests that these anti-piracy measures are not as effective as the movie studio...

A giant cyberlocker that announced its closure amid a government piracy crackdown and other threats, will be born again. EX.UA says that its service will resume under a new domain and business model, with anonymous sharing of files of any size and format, with cloud streaming and other features to ...

The leaked DVD screener drought has been broken with the release of the Denzel Washington movie Fences. The copy carries a Paramount Pictures "For Your Consideration" watermark. With more leaks said to be on the way, the group behind the leak informs TorrentFreak that they prefer not to b...

A private tracker that has been plagued with all kinds of legal trouble for over a decade has finally succumbed to copyright holder pressure. The Internationals weathered the storm of its owner being arrested four years ago but has just been forced to delete all of its torrents. Previously known as ...

‘Deadpool’ is the Most Torrented Movie of 2016 Superheroes and comics are doing very well on torrent sites this year, as the top three is completed by ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ and ‘Captain America Civil War.’ And further down the list we also find ‘X-Men Apocalypse’ and ‘Suicide Squad.’...

The Pirate Bay, widely considered as the bastion of piracy, plans to keep growing in 2017. Over the past year pirate streaming sites have conquered the masses, but that doesn’t mean torrent sites are going away. While TPB has had its rough patches, the site is once again the most-visited torrent si...

I like when companies like Disney include a "Free" digital copy with their DVDs.They try to trick people into thinking that the only way to get the movie onto a computer is by including a "bonus" disc that requires registering on their website to watch it.Then it can only be watc...

The people behind the resurrected KickassTorrents have condemned the sentence handed to one of the site's former music releasers. After uploading Top 40 songs to the old KAT, Wayne Evans was sent to prison for 12 months, something the team describes as "offensive in the extreme." katcommF...